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MaxPlanck007
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Professional Astronomer working on the Galatic Center Massive Black Hole (and M87*, and M81* in my free time).
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The power of persistence and community unity! What a great win for #Astronomy

American company (AES Andes) was planning on building an industrial facility in the Atacama desert. This would've produced light pollution affecting the pristine skies where some big telescopes are.

Well .... no more!

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Paranal: Night Sky Secured – A Triumph for the Astronomers’ Protest
The planned industrial facility near ESO Paranal has been halted, ensuring the protection of the unique night sky for astronomical research.
www.mpe.mpg.de
January 27, 2026 at 9:02 PM
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josefaschbacher.esa.int
22.1 billion euros subscribed.
A record.
A first.
And a clear message that Europe is serious about space and that @esa.int is the agency it trusts to deliver.

A historic Ministerial. A united Europe. A stronger ESA.
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ESA Member States commit to largest contributions at Ministerial
The largest contributions in the history of the European Space Agency, €22.1 bn, have been approved at its Council meeting at Ministerial level in Bremen, ...
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November 27, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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erc.europa.eu
📈 Record interest in ERC Starting Grants 2026!

4,807 proposals - a 22% increase compared to last year’s call.

👩‍🔬 Women submitted nearly 43% of proposals - the highest share ever recorded in an ERC call.

More stats 👉 bit.ly/4hcYJln

#ChooseEurope
Starting Grants 2026 applications: Facts and figures
The ERC Starting Grants 2026 call closed for applications on 14 October 2025. These are the preliminary data on submitted proposals:
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October 16, 2025 at 12:40 PM
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artsci.utoronto.ca
CITA’s Sebastiano von Fellenberg and colleagues have released a new image of the supermassive blackhole in the galaxy M87, revealing it is more dynamic and complex than expected.

Read more: bit.ly/4ndKxuL
3 images showing magnetic field changes around M87 from 2017 to 2021 show dynamic polarization shifts.
September 18, 2025 at 6:19 PM
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utoronto.ca
New images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT), an international collaboration involving several #UofT astronomers & astrophysicists, have shown a reversal in the magnetic fields of the supermassive black hole at the centre of the galaxy M87. 🔭 uoft.me/bQq
New images from the Event Horizon Telescope (EHT) collaboration revealed a dynamic environment with changing polarization patterns in the magnetic fields of supermassive black hole M87
September 19, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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📡✨ From 2017 to 2021, the Event Horizon Telescope has steadily sharpened its view of M87*, thanks to new stations like NOEMA and Kitt Peak. You can see the difference in the data itself — the coverage is richer, the quality stronger, the science clearer.
Image showing the visibilty phases and amplitudes of M87* observed by the EHT at 230 GHz/1.3mm The observations were taken in 2017,2018, and 2021, where the 2021 observations were first released yesterday 16. September 2025. A clear improvement in the number of datap points and the data quality is visible.
September 17, 2025 at 1:35 PM
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eso.org
Remember the first image of the black hole in the M87 galaxy taken by @ehtelescope.bsky.social ?

New analysis shows that some features of the ring around the black hole don't change over the years, but others do!

Why? Find out with #ChasingStarlight: www.youtube.com/watch?v=7P04...

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September 16, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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Great video produced by ESO explaining the newest EHT image in quite some detail!
September 16, 2025 at 11:36 AM
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Groundbreaking new image! The EHT reveals the dynamic environment around black hole M87*.

The 2021 image shows a distinct shift in polarization patterns, tracing changes in magnetic fields near the event horizon.

eventhorizontelescope.org/new-eht-imag...
September 16, 2025 at 7:01 AM
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atrupar.com
that summit could've been an email
August 15, 2025 at 11:12 PM
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ligo.org
The LIGO Virgo KAGRA study of #GW231123 was posted to the arXiv today, and is free to read

arxiv.org/abs/2507.08219

Data are available from the GW Open Science Center

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#OpenScience #OpenData ☄️
arXiv preprint GW231123: a Binary Black Hole Merger with Total Mass 190-265 M⊙ On 2023 November 23 the two LIGO observatories both detected GW231123, a gravitational-wave signal consistent with the merger of two black holes with masses 137+22−17M⊙ and 103+20−52M⊙ (90\% credible intervals), at luminosity distance 0.7-4.1 Gpc and redshift of 0.39+0.27−0.24, and a network signal-to-noise ratio of ∼22.5. Both black holes exhibit high spins, 0.9+0.10−0.19 and 0.80+0.20−0.51 respectively. A massive black hole remnant is supported by an independent ringdown analysis. Some properties of GW231123 are subject to large systematic uncertainties, as indicated by differences in inferred parameters between signal models. The primary black hole lies within or above the theorized mass gap where black holes between 60-130 M⊙ should be rare due to pair instability mechanisms, while the secondary spans the gap. The observation of GW231123 therefore suggests the formation of black holes from channels beyond standard stellar collapse, and that intermediate-mass black holes of mass ∼200 M⊙ form through gravitational-wave driven mergers. Figure 7 of the paper showing the inferred masses. The masses are measured to be high, but the exact values depend significantly depending on the waveform model used. These are the most significant systematic uncertainties we have seen so far. New detections are pushing the boundaries of our calculations. Figure 8 of the paper showing the inferred spins. Results again vary between waveform models, but they consistently show high spin magnitudes with some support for misalignment relative to the orbit of the binaries. Screenshot of from the Gravitational Wave Open Science Center showing spectrograms of the signal (which is short) as well as links to download the raw data.
July 14, 2025 at 4:18 PM
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aas.org
🆕 Joseph Hora (Center for Astrophysics | Harvard & Smithsonian) & Alicia Allen (Northern Arizona Univ) chat about Near-Earth Objects: youtu.be/vTHZtkO__zE

The AAS Journal Author Series connects authors with their article, their human story, and the larger #astronomy community. #ExploreAstronomy 🔭
AAS Journal Author Series: Joseph Hora and Alicia Allen on 2025AJ....169..256H
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June 3, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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atrupar.com
this mf really loves Signal
reichlinmelnick.bsky.social Aaron Reichlin-Melnick @reichlinmelnick.bsky.social · May 1
Honestly this is just incredible content.
Tweet from Charlie Spiering @charliespiering: "Photos show Mike Waltz literally checking Signal during the cabinet meeting (via Reuters)" UNderneath is a zoomed in picture of a phone with the chats open. You can see chats with Marco Rubio, Steve Witkoff, Tulsi Gabbard, JD Vance, someone whose last name ends with "cheidt," and a group chat labeled "NSC Scheduling." You can see You can see that JD Vance's chat has a text saying "I have confirmation from my counterpart it's turned off. He is going to be here..."
May 1, 2025 at 7:36 PM
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Ever wondered how astronomers figure out if a source is time-symmetric, that is if one flipped the sign of the time axis it would behave differently? No? Turns out you are not alone, because despite that being a very interesting diagnostic it has not received much attention. #astronomy #statistics
March 30, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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34 more hours with JWST woop woop 🔥
March 11, 2025 at 3:29 PM
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old fashioned colonialism now?
a man in a suit and tie is saying stay classy .
ALT: a man in a suit and tie is saying stay classy .
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February 5, 2025 at 7:50 AM
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robert-habeck.de
Wenn man an dem Tag, an dem man zum zweiten Mal mit der AfD abgestimmt hat, einer rechtsradikalen Partei, nicht ein 3. Mal ausschließt, sondern ein Bündnis mit den Grünen, dann ist das politische Koordinatensystem komplett verschoben. Liebe Grüße an Christian Lindner.

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Liebe Grüße an Christian Lindner | Robert Habeck
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February 1, 2025 at 4:58 PM
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nice interview with noble laureate Demis Hassabis
Demis Hassabis: "I've Been Driven My Whole Life to Build AI as the Ultimate Tool"
Demis Hassabis, a 2024 Nobel laureate, is one of the most important AI scientists in the world. Here, he explains what is next for AI – and what he thinks of DeepSeek.
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January 29, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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profsera.bsky.social
I grew up with stories about my family being under surveillance during the McCarthy era/red scare bc of their Ukrainian heritage. It's incredibly disturbing for me to see this kind of language coming from NASA, or any government agency for that matter 😢
ohdearz.bsky.social Laura Lopez @ohdearz.bsky.social · Jan 22
Here's an e-mail that just went out to NASA agency wide. 🔭
Letter reading, "Dear agency employees, We are taking steps to close all agency DEIA offices and end all DEIA-related contracts in accordance with President Trump’s executive orders titled Ending Radical and Wasteful Government DEI Programs and Preferencing and Initial Rescissions of Harmful Executive Orders and Actions. These programs divided Americans by race, wasted taxpayer dollars, and resulted in shameful discrimination. We are aware of efforts by some in government to disguise these programs by using coded or imprecise language. If you are aware of a change in any contract description or personnel position description since November 5, 2024 to obscure the connection between the contract and DEIA or similar ideologies, please report all facts and circumstances to DEIAtruth@opm.gov within 10 days. There will be no adverse consequences for timely reporting this information. However, failure to report this information within 10 days may result in adverse consequences. Thank you for your attention to this important matter. Janet Petro"
January 24, 2025 at 11:19 AM
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🤗👋Hello #BlueSky! We are the #MPE, belong to the Max Planck Society @maxplanck.de and interested in #astrophysics, #cosmology, #BlackHoles, #astrochemistry, #universe & much more..🪐🌟🛰️🔭📡⚗️
Follow us to get updates about research news, projects, people or career opportunities!
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Collage of MPE images
January 23, 2025 at 12:46 PM
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politicalbeauty.bsky.social
Tesla Gigafactory, Berlin - right now!

In cooperation with @ledbydonkeys.org
Auf der Tesla Gigafactory in Berlin steht: „Heil Tesla!“
January 22, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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gloefflmann.bsky.social
And that’s only day 1, folks!
a bald man with a beard is saying well that escalated quickly .
ALT: a bald man with a beard is saying well that escalated quickly .
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January 20, 2025 at 8:51 PM
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eliothiggins.bsky.social
Musk watches this tearfully, "N-n-no"
January 20, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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This week we've published our paper on the first midinfra red detection of Sgr A* in the mid infrared. The black showed a flare, quite similar with the flares observed in the Near Infrared.
Artist Impression of the JWST observations of Sgr A*. A flare lights up in the accretion flow, and as it orbits the black hole changes its mid infrared spectral color. If a human could see in the mid infrared, the flare would change from yellow to red as time passes. Credit M. Weiss/CfA
January 16, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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robert-habeck.de
⚫-🔴würde gerne weiter alles unter sich ausmachen. Die Zeiten sind vorbei.Je besser die Umfragen für🟢, desto schlechter lässt sich das ignorieren. ARD/ZDF sollten nicht nur die Herren Merz&Scholz zum Duell einladen. Sagen Sie's weiter. Lassen Sie sich keine Option nehmen!

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Sie haben es in der Hand! | Robert Habeck
YouTube video by Robert Habeck
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January 9, 2025 at 4:49 PM